[Zhang Fei]

[Donating a building to get your kid in may be an acceptable form of bribery and is usually public]

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It’s not bribery. It’s tuition for the less intellectually-inclined, and it’s paid to the college. Bribery is when the tuition is paid to employees of the college, just as it would not be cool for me to pay $150 for a 65” TV to a Walmart employee who has lifted it from the warehouse, instead of the $500 it normally costs to buy one from Walmart.

[JediJones]

Not a valid example. If the Walmart employee bought the TV, he could sell it you. The issue is him not owning it. The college “owns” all the enrollments in either one of these cases.

The proper analogy for this situation is comparing the difference between bribing a judge to find you not guilty vs. setting up a press conference with the governor to announce that you’re donating 100 million to the state treasury, after which he gives you a pardon. Justice is not served in that criminal case and neither was it served in the college admissions process here.

[morphing libertarian]

your taking me way too seriously